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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"ephemera"”.
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“Fotos y recuerdos” : decolonial ephemera strategies in twenty-first century Latina literature
… archives by insisting on the centrality of the ephemeral in their texts and the communities they represent. In what I call “decolonial ephemera strategies,” the authors I study—including Norma Cantú, Denise Chávez, and Nelly Rosario—represent and incorporate different kinds of ephemeral …
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SHIFTING SPACES IN DIGITAL RHETORIC: EPHEMERA IN THE AGE OF INFINITE MEMORY
… <p>SHIFTING SPACES IN DIGITAL RHETORIC: EPHEMERA IN THE AGE OF INFINITE MEMORY</p> <p>By</p> <p>Geoffrey Gimse</p> <p>The storage capacity of digital systems has expanded at an incredible rate over the past decade. This new and growing space and the rapidly evolving technologies that …
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The Givens-Theus Archive: Collection Management, Memory, and Narrative
… narrative through family photographs and ephemera, this thesis will analyze the process of creating a family archive, collection care, and genealogy. This paper focuses on over 400 photographs and pieces of ephemera from the Givens-Theus Archive I created. I rehomed, digitized, and …
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A Survey of the Ephemeroptera of Pearson Creek, Missouri
… simulans, Caenis jocosa, Potamanthus myops, Ephemera simulans, E. traverae, Haxagenia atrocaudata, H. bilineata, H. limbata, Ephoron album. The most common mayflies collected from Pearson Creek were species of Baetis, Stenacron, Stenonema, and Caenis. Ephemera traverae, Choroterpes oklahoma, …
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Grieving (and) Weaving (and) Spreading (and) Becoming
Our interactions with personal ephemera - a home, a recovered letter, an expired bank card, an arranged breakfast table, a church stained glass window, an enclosed corner, your mother’s rosary, a childhood bedroom - give way to the psychological investigations of the self. In this thesis paper, …
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Toward a New Kinship Constellation
… of meaning through the addition of important ephemera and objects such as plants, drawings, moving imagery, conversation and the unknown.
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Weird Old Figures and a New Twist: Cultural Functions of Halloween at the Turn of the 20th Century
… and the propagation of literature, imagery, and ephemera. Since Halloween had existed as an ethnic folk tradition in America for several decades, why and how did this particular group of Americans adopt — and adapt — Halloween to meet their needs? Which Halloween traditions did they retain and …
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Fragmentary Connections: Authorship, Curation, and Absence in Polar Scrapbooking, 1870-1920
… press clippings, letters, images, and expedition ephemera, these volumes were made to preserve a narrative of the explorer’s life story, lived experiences, and movements by those that they left behind. I will examine these sources for the alternative perspectives of polar exploration that the …
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Scrapbooking cultures in twentieth-century Britain
… newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera into their scrapbooks, Britons fashioned unique records of the world in which they lived. During the twentieth century, scrapbooking remained a popular activity, indebted to earlier Victorian traditions, but fuelled by new forms of mass …
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Other stories
… an "Act" of Architecture, and the ideological ephemera with which such an Act is implicated.
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Shooting a mule (and other stories)
… around visual representations, photographs, and ephemera from American equestrian culture during the late 19th century through the mid 20th century. It includes stories featuring P.T. Barnum, Roy Rogers, Lucille Mulhall, Eben Byers, Fred W. Loring, and other notable historical figures. The …
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Drifting absence :: drafting memory
… the memorial makes manifest the intangible ephemera of memory and silence through the studied manipulation of spatial experience.
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A Survey of the Ephemeroptera of North Fork River, Missouri
… Tricorythodes atratus, Potamanthus myops, Ephemera simulans, Hexagenia limbata, Ephoran album, Choroterpes oklahoma, Leptophlebia cupida, Paraleptophlebia mollis, Paraleptophlebia guttata, Paraleptophlebia debillis, Isonychia bicolor, Rithrogena pellucida, Leucrocuta maculipennis, Stenacron …
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Archival Vagabonds: 20th-Century American Fiction and the Archive in Novelistic Practice
… archival science's changing approach to ephemera, arrangement, and diversity. The role of the archive in my work is both methodological and thematic: first, my own research incorporates these authors' cache of research materials, correspondence, drafts, diaries, and aborted or unpublished …
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A social history of sport in Cork, Tipperary and Waterford, c. 1880-1930
… to club records, official publications and ephemera this thesis builds a picture of sport in Munster that is deeply rooted in the community, and that forms an important facet of the social world of Cork, Tipperary and Waterford from 1880-1930.
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Changing Space: A Practice-Led Enquiry into Representations of the Urban
… processes of the contemporary urban. As printed ephemera has been an integral part of the surface and life of the city, I aim to reflect their affinity through mixed-media print processes. My contribution to knowledge includes original approaches, visual strategies and formats to create new …
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Making Sense of Nonsense
… spray paint, string, furniture, plastic, S&M ephemera, and glitter merge into unsteady structures that hint at new narratives of their functionality, or lack thereof. </p> <p>Questioning realms of visual and verbal language, aesthetics, and functionality are fundamental to this exhibition as …
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Changing Space: A Practice-Led Enquiry into Representations of the Urban
… processes of the contemporary urban. As printed ephemera has been an integral part of the surface and life of the city, I aim to reflect their affinity through mixed-media print processes. My contribution to knowledge includes original approaches, visual strategies and formats to create new …
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HOT+COLD : physical and atmospheric phenomena in the Antarctic
… to the oscillating physical and atmospheric ephemera of this continent, while using the internal and external extrema of a research installation as a performative bridge between architecture and environment. Through granting a variety of sensorial experiences, this station will help instill …
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Rethinking Landscape Interpretation: Form, Function, and Meaning of the Garfield Farm, 1876-1905
… biographies, political cartoons, and other ephemera during Garfield’s 1880 presidential campaign reveals the existence of the dual cultural values of agrarian tradition and agricultural progress in the late nineteenth century. Although Garfield did not depend on farming exclusively for his …
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